I'd prefer that no version of Archive::Tar be specified
for Win32, or perhaps even no such prerequisite at all;
it's a core module in ActivePerl, and has a history
of some instability on Win32 - an upgrade may break
things on the local system.
I was trying to address this from Steven Hay's
On Sun, 21 May 2006, Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
I'd prefer that no version of Archive::Tar be specified
for Win32, or perhaps even no such prerequisite at all;
it's a core module in ActivePerl, and has a history
of some instability on Win32 - an upgrade may break
things on the local system.
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